Truck.



E. LANGILLE.

TRUCK.

APPLICATION FILED DE0.7,1910.

'- Patented July 4, 1911 FIB-.3

INVIENTDH 1 WITNESSES E." LANBILLE- machines for 996,723, Specification of Letters Patent. atented Ju1y 4, 1911, Application filed December 7, 1910. Serial No. 596,141. To all whom it may concern: paratus. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section Be it known that,- I, ELLiAI-r LANGILLE, of through the" forward frame. Fig. 3 is a Stellarton, in the Province of Nova Scotia, horizontal section through the clamping omlnlon of Canada, haye invented certain means on the rearward frame. Fig. 4. is a new and useful Improvements 1n Trucks, of which the following is-a SPGClfiCEIiilOH.

hls invention relates to improvements in removing and applying cou-' perspective view of the cl t e forward frame.

v\eferring to the drawings, A represents a suitable truck adapted to run on a railway amping (logs on plers or draw bars from and to freight, pastrack, or on the floor of a shop between the senger and other railroad carsand tenders, tracks, and provided with suitable wheels 0 andthe objects of the invention are to pro for this purpose, and with handles 11 b "vide a simple and effective device of this means of which the truck may be lifted on character which will enable couplers or draw and ofl' the track. bars to'be applied or removed very rapidly This track is arranged to. carry slide a high degree of eliicienc Y of the greatest possible i composed of but a few parts, all adapted for. b

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'in which:

frames B and C which consists of opposite sidesof 14 at the top.

represents a slide mounted on the frontframe, which includes an upper member 15. conveniently in the form ofal casting, and side' members ltiand 17 sliding in guideavays 18 and IO-provided on the frame.

Means are the slides; the means illustrated to adjust the front slide comprising a ratchet jack of usual construction. The upper mem ber 15 is provided on its upper surface with means to engage the coupler or draw bar,

and with a minimum number of with a minimum amount of labor the attention of hands.

Another object is to at opposite ends, each of side posts 12 and 13 on the truck and cross bars provide an 'instrumen tality of the class specified which from an operative standpoint will, in usage, possess and effectiveness structurally considered, will be simplicity, being and which elng made at a minimum cost and indie 'idually so formed as to be capable of being ,i eadily assembled in compact arrangement for aeomplishing the purposes intended.

Other objects and advantages will bein' part obvious and in part pointed out hercthese ineans in the embodiment illustrated yinafter. ,fcomprising laterally sliding and overlapping lVith t,hese,and other ends in view this ini ention z' ccordi'ngly consists in the features if construction, combinatimi of parts, and arrangement of elen'yents hereinafter more exits anexemplification of the underlying principles if the invention.

In order that this invention may be more fully understood and; be comprehensible to others skilled in the art, drawings illustrating a convenient means,-of eiirrying out the same are pointed out aspayt of this spec1 fi-. on, and while the underlying principles dogs QO-"and 21 held in a slot 22 formed in' the'upper face of the section 15, said dogs, being'held in adjusted position by means 9 of av bolt '23 extending through slots 24 in the dogs and through the section 15 the l-read of 11 e bolt being held from rotatidn in -a/slot 25 in one side of the upper section l5. Mounted between the cross bars 14, is a rear, slide l adapted to connect the side ine nbers of the frame and provided with a clamping bolt 26 extending through a verti- "cally' extending slot 27 formed in a guide ll10flll)0l' "28,- the bolt being adapted to be :elampedby means of a handle 29 on one side screw-threaded engageof the invention may be otherwise applie't' by modifications falling within the scope ,o" the claiinsf the' 'l1 ereinafte1'- disclosed ein? bodiment is that which will ordinarily be preferable to employ thereof .which has ment with the bolt.

The upper part of the slide is permitted slight lateral play between stop pins 30 and 31, and the topof the-slide is provided with means to prevent lateral sliding of the draw-bar or conplerthereon, these means comprising stop plates 32 and 33 projecting above the upper surface. .If desired both 1 I jacks could be operated by ratchet jacks. Figure 1 is a perspective view .of the ap- In using the appliance, the draw bar or in practice and is 1- garded representing, substantial improvements over the many-obviousor implied varealms. of the same. ,7 Insaei1 drawings itis to be noted that like refer to corresponding parts throughout all the figures in the drawings,

provided to vertically adjust 80 coupler is placed on the slides and then may bemoved by the truck into its proper position, and the height of opposite ends may be independently adjusted by adjustment of the slides. In this'way, the coupler or draw-bar may be rapidly fitted into position.

As many changes could be made inthe above construction and many apparently widely difle'rent embodiments of the invention within the scope of the claims con. structed without departing from the spirit scribed, a truck having spaced frames thereon, vertically adjustable slides in the frames,

formed at the top thereof, overlapping and transversely sliding dogs in said slot, and

position.

raised position, and a jaw 2. In an apparatus of'the eharacterldes'cribed,'-a truck having a frame thereon, a vertically adjustable slide. in the frame, a

transverse slot formed at the 'top thereof, overlapping and transversely slidable dogs J in said slot, and means for clamping the dogs in adjusted position, said means comthe frames,"one of said slides being supported'with freedom of slight lateral play, stoppins limiting the lateral play, means for.

clamping the slide havin lateral play in opposite slide.

.for raising the v In witness whereof I have hereunto set I ELIJAI-I LANGILLE.

j Witnesses:

' R. A. MACDONALD, e W. D. EINnaY.

my hand inthe presence of two witnesses. one of said slideshaving a transverse slot-Q w 

